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2008-04-10 Iraq

Hundred years of Iraq? There is a worse scenario

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 HMMMMM, that reminds me - a "weak horse".

Compare wid WAFF.com Poster Thread > AMERICA MUST BE BALKANIZED! And not necess due to being defeated by Radical Islam-only either.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-10 01:00|| 2008-04-10 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I want a permanent US presence in the Middle East. But I don't want ground troops dodging IED traps. Neither does Senator McCain. Last week he used a Letterman appearance to attack alleged Rumsfeld' "mismanagement" of the Iraq war. Frankly, McCain will produce a position that will gather broad bi-partisan support, and the troops will support him as well. Hardline GOP might not like to hear explicit or tacit attacks on a sitting GOP President, but McCain has no plans of lying his way into the White House. The Surge was Act 2; watch for Act 3.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-10 05:04|| 2008-04-10 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Buried in the tome of our record, if not burned by the Socialist orthodoxy that permeates our institutions of 'learning', is the story of a hundred years of confronting tribes and the vagaries of conflict and peace in our growth as a nation. The Socialist Guilt War against the West and particularly America doesn't permit the telling of the century of constant warfare and nation building that gives us the bounties and freedoms that not only do Americans enjoy, but most democratic people in the world. Had there not been an America with the ability to apply all of its resources in those critical years of the 20th Century, the authoritarians and totalitarians certainly would have dominated the landscape by the close of that century, which. of course, the socialist believed they were entitled to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-10 08:36|| 2008-04-10 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 The way to bring global jihad, to a screeching halt, to send the would-be lords and masters of the world back to sitting in their tents and beating their women, would be to cease buying oil -- any at all.

Or to just take the oil, pack the squatters off to their desert tents, and sell the crude at a discount to ourselves and at a premium to our enemies. Use some of the proceeds to fund massive endowments to Ivy League and equivalent institutions and suggest funding will be withdrawn unless the anti-Semites, Truthers and Communists are fired.

End of problem.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-10 08:59|| 2008-04-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 We will break the oil monopoly. The current prices are unsustainable and we have technology on our side.

We've already got diesel which was originally designed to run on peanut oil. We've got improving hybrid tech and electric car tech can only behelped by the fast recharging batteries in the pipeline. If we give up on the dream of hydrogen the pieces are all there.

Then add the oil reserves recently found in the Dakotas and that bit in Alaska and we can cut our alternate energy with oil as we ramp up.

All we really need is some political leadership to make sure that we don't forget why we're dumping oil when prices are falling. Use the green argument, use the Islam is crazy argument but do something to nudge us away.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-10 12:36|| 2008-04-10 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I learned in college how modernism has spoiled and destroyed indiginous cultures around the world. It is practically our duty to relieve the bediuin of the burden of their oil and modernism and progress. It clearly conflicts with their native ways.

It's the only humane thing to do really and only a racist would insist they have a right to property when the Beduin, as nomadic people, have never believed in borders.

/snark

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-10 18:57|| 2008-04-10 18:57|| Front Page Top

#7 How different would the world be if the Zionist movement were convinced to create a state at the mouth of the Euphrates and the Jews had all the oil from Iraq/Kuwait/Saudi Arabia.

Heck, next time the Arabs pop off perhaps that option should be floated.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-10 19:00|| 2008-04-10 19:00|| Front Page Top

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